Law at the End of the Day

Larry Catá Backer's comments on current issues in transnational law and policy. These essays focus on the constitution of regulatory communities (political, economic, and religious) as they manage their constituencies and the conflicts between them. The context is globalization. This is an academic field-free zone: expect to travel "without documents" through the sometimes strongly guarded boundaries of international relations, constitutional, international, comparative, and corporate law.

Monday, June 27, 2016

Democracy Part 35: Brexit and Its Consequences--The End of the Emerging Globalized Order or its Affrmation?

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) In a prior post I suggested the nature of the consequences when the tension between mass democrac...
Friday, June 24, 2016

Democracy Part 34: Brexit, Mass Democracy and the Contradictions of Voting in Globalization

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) There has always been a tension between mass democracy --the notion of popular sovereignty directly or...
Thursday, June 23, 2016

My Commentary for the U.N. Forum on Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law - "Widening the Democratic Space: The Role of Youth in Public Decision Making"

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) Human Rights Council Resolution 28/14 (9 April 2015) established a Forum on Human Rights, Democracy...
Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Just Published: "The Concept of Constitutionalization and the Multi-Corporate Enterprise in the 21st Century: From Body Corporate to Sovereign Enterprise"

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I was happy to report the publication of Multinationals and the Constitutionalization of the World Power System (Jean-Philippe Robé, A...
Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Just Published: "Multinationals and the Constitutionalization of the World Power System" (Jean-Philippe Robé, Antoine Lyon-Caen, and Stéphane Vernac, eds., with a forward by John G. Ruggie)

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I am happy to report the publication of Multinationals and the Constitutionalization of the World Power System (Jean-Philippe Robé, Ant...
Monday, June 20, 2016

Consultation - Forum on Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law - Deadline 4 July 2016; Widening the Democratic Space: The Role of Youth in Public Decision Making

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) Human Rights Council Resolution 28/14 established a Forum on Human Rights, Democracy and Rule of Law....
Sunday, June 19, 2016

OECD Watch to Governments: "A 4X10 Plan For Why and How to Unlock the Potential of the OECD Guidelines"

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June 2016 marks the 40th anniversary of the adoption of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Guiding Prin...
Thursday, June 16, 2016

Part 10 (The Social Self and God)--Dialogues on a Philosophy for the Individual: The Social Self

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) F lora Sapio (FS), Beitita Horm Pepulim (BHP), and I (LCB) continue our experiment in coll...
Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Statement by Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein on the Opening of the 32nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) Madamina, il catalogo è questo   Delle belle che amò il padron mio; un catalogo egli è che ho fatt...
Sunday, June 12, 2016

Upcoming Conference: Jessup's Bold Proposal: Engagement With Transnational Law After 60 Years at the Dickson Poon School of Law, Kings College, 1-2 July 2016

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I take this opportunity to spread the word about an upcoming conference: "Jessup’s Bold Proposal: Engagements with ‘Transnational L...
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Larry Catá Backer
State College, Pennsylvania, United States
I hope you enjoy these essays. Each treats aspects of the relationship between law, broadly understood, and human organization. My essays are about government and governance, based on the following assumptions: Humans organize themselves in all sorts of ways. We bind ourselves to organization by all sorts of instruments. Law has been deployed to elaborate differences between economic organizations (principally corporations, partnerships and other entities), political organization (the state, supra-national, international, and non-governmental organizations), religious, ethnic and family organization. I am not convinced that these separations, now sometimes blindly embraced, are particularly useful. This skepticism serves as the foundation of the essays here. My thanks to Arianna Backer for research assistance.
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